Datacenter Network Monitoring and Management - 2026
Intro
17.02. Intro to Data Center networks (Intro presentation)
Data centers topologies and routing
24.02. FatTree
SIGCOMM ‘08 - A Scalable, Commodity Data Center Network Architecture
Mohammad Al-Fares, Alexander Loukissas, Amin Vahdat
03.03. Jellyfish
NSDI ‘12 - Jellyfish: Networking Data Centers Randomly
Ankit Singla, Chi-Yao Hong, Lucian Popa, P. Brighten Godfrey
10.03. Mosaic
SIGCOMM ‘25 - Mosaic: Breaking the Optics versus Copper Trade-off with a Wide-and-Slow Architecture and MicroLEDs
Kaoutar Benyahya, Ariel Gomez Diaz, Junyi Liu, Vassily Lyutsarev, Marianna Pantouvaki, Kai Shi, Shawn Yohanes Siew, Hitesh Ballani, Thomas Burridge, Daniel Cletheroe, Thomas Karagiannis, Brian Robertson, Ant Rowstron, Mengyang Yang, Arash Behziz, Jamie Gaudette Paolo Costa
Communication and protocols
17.03. DCTCP
SIGCOMM ‘10 - Data Center TCP (DCTCP)
Mohammad Alizadeh, Albert Greenberg, David A. Maltz, Jitendra Padhye, Parveen Patel, Balaji Prabhakar, Sudipta Sengupta†, Murari Sridharan
24.03. NDP
SIGCOMM ‘17 - Re-architecting datacenter networks and stacks for low latency and high performance
Mark Handley, Costin Raiciu, Alexandru Agache, Andrei Voinescu, Andrew W. Moore, Gianni Antichi, Marcin Wójcik
31.03. CorrOpt
SIGCOMM ‘17 - Understanding and Mitigating Packet Corruption in Data Center Networks
Danyang Zhuo Monia Ghobadi Ratul Mahajan Klaus-Tycho Förster Arvind Krishnamurthy Thomas Anderson
Applications
14.04. Paper1 Paper2
HotNets ‘25 - Rethinking the Cost of Distributed Caches for Datacenter Services
Ziming Mao, Jonathan Ellithorpe, Atul Adya, Rishabh Iyer, Matei Zaharia, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica
HotNets ‘25 - Automatically Surfacing Opportunities for Improvements In Internet-Scale Applications
Vipul Harsh, Sayan Sinha, Henry Milner, Haijie Wu, B. Aditya Prakash, Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang
21.04. CATO
NSDI ‘25 - CATO: End-to-End Optimization of ML-Based Traffic Analysis Pipelines
Gerry Wan, Shinan Liu, Francesco Bronzino, Nick Feamster, Zakir Durumeric
28.04. TLadder
SIGCOMM ‘25 - TLadder: QoE-Centric Video Ladder Optimization with Playback Feedback at Billion Scale
Zhuqi Li, He Liu, Shenglan Huang, Baojin Geng, Jack Chen, Jialin Chen, Liyang Sun, Qianyun Ma, Peizhe Liu, Junjun Zhao, Yiting Liao, Jamie Chen, Qian Ma, Qiang Ma, Feng Qian
Monitoring and Management
05.05. OpenFlow
SIGCOMM CCR ‘2008 - OpenFlow: Enabling Innovation in Campus Networks
Nick McKeown, Tom Anderson, Hari Balakrishnan, Guru Parulkar, Larry Peterson, Jennifer Rexford, Scott Shenker, Jonathan Turner
12.05. BeauCoup
SIGCOMM ‘20 - BeauCoup: Answering Many Network Traffic Queries, One Memory Update at a Time
Xiaoqi Chen, Shir Landau-Feibish, Mark Braverman, Jennifer Rexford
Security and Verification
19.05. Paper1 Paper2
HotNets ‘25 - Tackling Ambiguity in User Intent for LLM-based Network Configuration Synthesis
Rajdeep Mondal, Nikolaj Bjorner, Todd Millstein, Alan Tang, George Varghese
HotNets ‘25 - Towards Accessible Model-Free Verification
Alexander Krentsel, Oliver Ye, Anthony Tafoya, Xuqian Ma, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Anees Shaikh
26.05. NDD
NSDI ‘25 - NDD: A Decision Diagram for Network Verification
Zechun Li, Peng Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Hongkun Yang
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